Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
War-date Union soldier’s Autograph Letter Signed by Hannibal Johnson,Co. B 3rd Maine Infantry and Co. D 1st Maine Battalion Infantry, taken POW twice, once at Gettysburg and then at Wilderness, he escaped at Columbia, South Carolina November 15, 1864, and arrived in Knoxville, Tennessee, January 10, 1865. This letter is 8pp octavo, Camp near Leesburg, Virginia, November 1, 1862, and reads in part: “...We are now in camp about 2 miles from the city of Leesburg...the Division are assigned to Burnside’s Corps and on detached service and what the service is to be is as yet a mystery...There has been heavy cannonading all the afternoon in the direction of Watertown and if it continues much longer our division may be called for it but no one cares for the fighting part of it but we do detest marching...We are encamped on the ground that four (4) rebel regts occupied last winter...We had a rebel Major along with us yesterday for our pickets took him the night before...He obtained a shot furlough to go hom and see his family not knowing our people were on this side of the river and as he was calmly sleeping in his own house in bed our picket went into the house and in his own bedroom (the immodest fellow) and took him out of bed regardless of the wishes of his wife who had not seen him for a long time and thought it mighty hard she could not enjoy his company for one single night, but we told her everythign was just in war, love & matrimony and left her to mourn the sudden theft from her then voiceless bed....We are living like fighting cocks and will as long as the farmers leave things around loose...” More. Very good condition.
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